Angelina Jolie Pens Op-Ed About The Plight Of Women In Afghanistan A Year After American Withdrawal

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Angelina Jolie is begging the world not to turn a blind eye to the women of Afghanistan. This week, the actress and humanitarian penned an op-ed for Time magazine, focusing on the plight of Afghani women a year after U.S.

troop withdrawal and the takeover by the Taliban. READ MORE: Angelina Jolie Poses For Cute Mother-Daughter Pics As She Drops Zahara Off At College She shared the story of a young Afghani refugee now living in Rome, who had been “months from qualifying as a doctor” before the Taliban came back into power. “Overnight, they and 14 million other Afghan women and girls lost their right to go to high school or university, their right to work, and their freedom of movement,” she wrote.

Jolie added that the progress for women in the country over the last 20 years was “a bright light during years of continuing violence and suffering for the people of Afghanistan,” but said the progress has “been overturned with unimaginable speed.” She added, “The daughters of Afghanistan are extraordinary for their strength, resilience, and resourcefulness.” READ MORE: Angelina Jolie And Daughter Shiloh Hit Måneskin Concert in Rome On the treatment of women in Afghanistan, Jolie described political imprisonment, kidnapping, forced marriages and public beatings. “Yet despite the dangers, the greatest resistance to the reversal of women’s rights in Afghanistan has not come from foreign powers, but from Afghan women themselves, who have taken to the streets,” she said.

The 47-year-old also argued that the U.S. and its allies withdrawing from Afghanistan last year was “the worst possible step.” Finally, Jolie said, “There have been different chapters in Afghanistan’s history and many dark moments.